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Aššur-daʾʾinanni
Aššur-daʾʾinanni was a Neo-Assyrian eunuch official who served King Tiglath-pileser III as governor of Mazamua and gave his name to the year 733 BC, the year of the campaign against Damascus.
Aššur-etil-ilāni
Aššur-etil-ilāni (Aššur-etel-ilāni), son of Ashurbanipal, was a late Neo-Assyrian king (reign dated 630–627 or 631–627 BC), installed as a minor by the chief eunuch Sîn-šuma-līšir, who held real power; succeeded by his brother Sîn-šarra-iškun.
Assur-nada
Assur-nada (Aššur-nāda) was an Old Assyrian merchant of the 19th century BC, eldest son of Aššur-idī and chief agent of the family firm at Kanesh in Anatolia.
Assurance services
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Assurbanipal's campaign against Yauta' of Qedar
Assurbanipal's campaign against Yauta' (Uate') of Qedar was a series of Assyrian military operations in North Arabia, begun around 652 BC when Yauta' joined a Babylonian revolt.
Assurbanipal's campaigns against Elam
Assurbanipal's campaigns against Elam were Assyrian wars fought between 664 and 646 BC against successive Elamite kings, ending with the sack of Susa and the destruction of Elam as a regional power.
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Assuwa
Assuwa was a coalition of twenty-two states in northwestern Anatolia, defeated by the Hittite king Tudhaliya I/II around 1430 BC; its allies included Wilusiya and Taruisa, likely Troy.
Assyria
Assyria: ancient Mesopotamian kingdom centered on Ashur on the Tigris, known in Old, Middle, and Neo-Assyrian phases. It grew into the Near East's dominant empire (over one million square kilometers) before Babylonian-Mede forces destroyed Nineveh in 612 BCE; royal resistance ended in 609 BCE.
Assyrian captivity
Assyrian captivity: the deportation of Israelites after Samaria fell in 722 BCE to Shalmaneser V and Sargon II, who removed 27,280 people under Assyria's mass resettlement policy.
Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East is an independent Eastern Christian church tracing its origins to apostolic Mesopotamia, with most members in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.
Assyrian community of Urmia
The Assyrian community of Urmia (آشوریان ارومیه) was the Nestorian Christian population of the Urmia plain in Iranian Azerbaijan, a center of Assyrian nationalism by 1900.
Assyrian conquest of Aram
The Assyrian conquest of Aram was the centuries-long series of Neo-Assyrian campaigns against the Aramean states of Syria, ending with Tiglath-pileser III's annexation of Aram-Damascus in 732 BC.
Assyrian conquest of Egypt
The Assyrian conquest of Egypt, also known as Esarhaddon's Egyptian campaigns, was a series of Neo-Assyrian campaigns against Kushite-ruled Egypt, 671-663 BCE, reaching from the sack of Memphis to the sack of Thebes.
Assyrian conquest of Galilee
The Assyrian conquest of Galilee, also called the Tiglath-Pileser III campaign against Israel, annexed Galilee and Gilead in 734-732 BC, leaving Israel a vassal under Hoshea.
Assyrian conquest of Mitanni
The Assyrian conquest of Mitanni, also called the Fall of Hanigalbat, was the absorption of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni into the Middle Assyrian Empire under Adad-nirari I and Shalmaneser I, c. 1300–1260 BC.
Assyrian conquest of Musri and the Kashiari mountains
The Assyrian conquest of Musri and the Kashiari mountains was a series of campaigns by King Adad-nirari II into Hanigalbat between 901 and 894 BC.
Assyrian deportation of Mitanni elites to Assur
Under Tukultī-Ninurta I (13th century BC), Assyria deported populations from Hanigalbat, the former Mitanni kingdom, to Assur, with inscriptions claiming 28,800 people, a disputed figure.
Assyrian dynasty of Babylon
The Assyrian dynasty of Babylon is the period when Assyrian kings and their appointees held the Babylonian throne, from Tiglath-pileser III in 729 BC until Nabopolassar's accession in 626 BC.
Assyrian eclipse of 763 BC
The Assyrian eclipse of 763 BC, also called the eclipse of Bur-Sagale, was a solar eclipse recorded in Assyria on 15 June 763 BC, in the reign of Ashur-dan III.
Assyrian King List
The Assyrian King List is a cuneiform text listing Assyria's rulers from legendary ancestors to Šalmaneser V, known as the backbone of Assyrian chronology and anchored by the 763 BC solar eclipse.
Assyrian lion weights
These official bronze lion weights, originating from Neo-Assyria's Kalhu (Nimrud), were used to define the heavy mina and are now housed in the British Museum.
Assyrian people
Assyrians, also known as Assyrian Christians or Chaldo-Assyrians, are an Indigenous people of Mesopotamia, largely Christian and speaking Aramaic dialects, with homelands in Iraq, Syria, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran.
Assyrian province of Hanigalbat
Hanigalbat was the Assyrian name for the former Mitanni heartland in Upper Mesopotamia, conquered in the 13th century BC and ruled by a grand vizier.
Assyrian provincial reform of Tiglath-Pileser III
The Assyrian provincial reform of Tiglath-Pileser III was the reorganization of the Neo-Assyrian Empire under King Tiglath-pileser III, who broke up large noble-held districts into smaller provinces governed by royal appointees.
Assyrian royal annals
Composed in Akkadian, the Assyrian royal annals are inscriptions from the 9th to 7th centuries BC. They document Neo-Assyrian kings' military campaigns and are key to regional chronology.
Assyrian sack of Washukanni
The Assyrian sack of Washukanni (Sack of Wassukanni) was the 13th-century BC Assyrian conquest of Washukanni, capital of Mitanni, ending the kingdom's independence under Shalmaneser I.
Assyrian Timber Transportation relief
The Assyrian Timber Transportation relief is a set of alabaster bas-reliefs carved for Sargon II's palace at Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad, Iraq) in the late 8th century BC, now in the Louvre.
Assyrian-Babylonian war of Adad-nirari I
The Assyrian-Babylonian war of Adad-nirari I was a 13th-century BC border war in which Adad-nirari I of Assyria totally defeated the Kassite king Nazi-Maruttaš of Babylonia.